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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The richest man in the world on Sunday took to X, the social media platform he owns that was formerly known as Twitter, and appeared to let the world know how he really feels following the U.S. Secret Service apparently thwarting a would-be assassin allegedly armed with an assault rifle hundreds of yards away from Trump's golf club in Florida, where Trump was golfing.MORE: 'Is He Dead?'
32% : Mike Huckabee, Republicans Threaten 'Civil War' Over Trump Indictments, 2024 ElectionAfter Trump Shooting,
27% : Earlier this month, Philip Anderson -- a Black man from Texas who was shown storming the U.S. Capitol as part of the so-called "Stop the Steal" rally in which Trump encouraged his supporters to participate in the ensuing political violence -- threatened even more political violence if Trump is imprisoned for his felony conviction after being found guilty of paying hush money to a porn star via illegal means for political purposes.
22% : But instead of vilifying Routh, Musk responded to a post on X that asked why Trump was the target of yet another assassination attempt.
17% : Why Black People Are Not Grieving The Failed Assassination Of Donald TrumpThe suspect was later identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, a white man whose past social media activity suggests he once supported Trump, who was also the subject of a failed assassination in July.
15% : Reacting to Trump releasing a statement claiming he is "an innocent man" who is "fighting for our Constitution," Waters suggested those words were essentially a call to arms for Trump's MAGA base of blindly faithful followers.
12% : In June, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters wondered whether Trump used his aforementioned guilty verdict as a way to incite violence from his rabid followers who have shown their willingness to literally fight on his behalf.
5% : "Political violence has seemingly been the rule and not the exception since Jan. 6, 2021, when an army of Trump supporters illegally broke into the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to prevent the certification of Biden's election motivated by the debunked conspiracy theory that Trump was the victim of election fraud; a conspiracy theory that Trump maintains nearly four years later.

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